Enhancing public understanding of the Bank of Korea’s policies and functions, formulating PR strategies, publishing the Annual Report, and developing and managing the central bank’s web site, Managing and operating the Bank of Korea Money Museum and Gallery, and holding the annual Monetary Policy Challenge, Planning and managing the Knowledge Management System and knowledge management, maintaining documents and records, managing the public information system, providing information resources and electronic information services, operating the digital library, and supervising distribution of the central bank’s publications

Modifying statistics compilation standards, and adjusting other operations related to statistics, Developing new statistics and studying statistical techniques, Compiling and analyzing monetary and banking statistics, and statistics on the flow of funds account, the balance of payments, the business survey index, financial statement analysis, the consumer survey index, national income, input/output, and prices

Analyzing the nation’s financial stability, Conducting research on and studying the management and supervision of financial institutions, Promoting cooperation in domestic and foreign financial supervision-related matters, Preparing the Financial Stability Report

Conducting R&D activities on the financial markets and on open market operations, Conducting research and analysis of trends of the money supply, interest rates, and bank deposits and lending, Managing reserves and conducting open market operations, Conducting research and analysis of trends in the money markets and among non-bank financial institutions, Conducting research and analysis of trends in the capital market and corporate finance

Handling all businesses concerning the payment and settlement systems, and drawing up the related policies, Conducting R&D activities related to the payment and settlement systems, Performing surveillance on the operational situations of various individual payment and settlement systems, Operating BOK-Wire+, Conducting business related to the Secretariat of the Financial Informatization Promotion Council and surveillance on electronic banking, Compiling and analyzing statistics related to payment and settlement, Deposits at and lending by the Bank of Korea, Improving systems related to the retail payment businesses of financial investment companies, and dealing with internal and external businesses connected with them

Issuing currency and managing currency circulation, Conducting R&D activities on the currency, on currency issuance and on the currency distribution systems, Exchanging currency and clearing bills, Sorting, inspecting and discarding currency, Matters related to storing of the government’s paper and documents, valuables and currency and Bank of Korea’s goods in vaults at the Bank of Korea

Conducting research and analysis of the foreign exchange and international financial markets, Planning related to the foreign exchange system and policy, Planning related to the raising and operation of foreign currency funds of financial institutions, Planning for and managing the official foreign reserves, External cooperation and conduct of R&D activities related to financial stability, Accounting treatment for foreign exchange transactions, Operation and management of the Foreign Exchange Stabilization Fund, Operating foreign exchange markets, Dealing with foreign exchange positions of foreign exchange banks, Compiling and analyzing foreign exchange statistics, Review and follow-up control of, including reporting on, foreign exchange transactions, Planning and conduct of monitoring of foreign exchange transactions, and of examinations of foreign exchange banks and foreign exchange brokerage firms, Operating Foreign Exchange Information System

Planning and coordinating activities related to international affairs, conducting research on and studying international agendas, promoting cooperation with international financial organizations and central banks, engaging in financial cooperation with international financial institutions, and organizing international events and technical cooperation

Planning related to overseas operation of foreign currency assets held by Bank of Korea, Conducting R&D activities related to operation of foreign currency assets held by Bank of Korea, Managing risks of foreign currency assets held by Bank of Korea, Conducting investment management of foreign currency assets held by Bank of Korea, Conducting overseas operation of foreign currency assets held by Bank of Korea, Providing assistance related to overseas operation of foreign currency assets

Conducting research related to topics such as monetary policy, financial market dynamics, the international economy, the business cycle and growth, demographic structure and labor, and the North Korean economy